Prime Minister Hassan Diab just announced his government's resignation, amid fury over Beirut explosion.
Addressing the nation in a televised speech, Diab said he was resigning alongside his entire Cabinet, several of whom had already publicly announced they were standing down in protest over the blast.
The resignations followed consecutive days of rage on the streets of Beirut, where security forces clashed over the weekend with protesters demanding the ouster of Lebanon’s political class over the country’s worst peacetime disaster. The explosion of a huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port, which occurred despite repeated warnings among officials of the dangers it posed, has been widely blamed on an entrenched government culture of incompetence and corruption.
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